Slavery - The "Peculiar Institution" Chapter 11 Section 3
Key Terms:
1) Slave codes: these codes of the southern states forbade slaves to hold property, to leave their master's premises without permission, to be out after dark, to congregate with other slaves except at church, carry firearms, or to strike a white person even in self-defense.
2) Paternal Relatioinship: This was about how the slaves were treated by their masters. Either slave owners were warm and benevelent or they were cruel and tyrannical. Smaller plantations would have their masters work directly along side them and oversee them. Finally slaves generally wanted to live on larger farms because they would have a better social life.
3) Work conditions: Work conditions were poor overall, but they werent as bad as people made them out to be. In some cases the working conditons were better then the labor forces of the north. A slaves work day was typically long, and hard, they also were often split apart from their families.
4) High mortality rates: Slaves life expectency was much shorter then thew southern whites because, they were malnutritioned. Also they had dirty/unhealthy living conditions. Finally they had larg families so children were less likely to become adults.
5) Sexual abuse: The female house servents which were african american often were vulnerable to sexual abuse by their masters. In addition to this, the female slaves were often treated harsh by the white women as well.
Slave revolts: Actual revots were rare but the idea of revolts occored often. But if a slave revolt did actually happen it would be well planed but it would dramatically effect the slaves life as laws would become more strict and some may even be killed.
3-5 Important Ideas
1) Life under slavery
2) Slavery in cities
3) The life of free blacksc
4) Slave resistance
Summary/Main Idea Statement
This section showed that the life of a typical slave was poor, it described the conditons they had to endure every day, and some of the things they tryed to do to rebel.
Andre P. Peter. F.
Slavery - The "Peculiar Institution" Chapter 11 Section 3
Key Terms
Prosier Rebellion- A rebellion that took place in Richmond, VA. It was brought down by militia. It included about 1000 slaves.
Vessey Rebellion- A rebellion that really never happened. It was leaked and eventually put down.
Turner Rebellion- The biggest of three, included hundreds of blacks, and had 60 whtie killed.
Paternal Relationship- How the slaves were treater by their masters, either warmly, or cruelly.
Free Blacks- About 250,000 blacks who lived in the south. They lived in conditions equa with slaves, but still had freedom.
Slave Codes- The laws about slaves. Examples include how slaves cannot hold property, hold firearms, congregate, etc.
3-5 Important Ideas
-There were various types of slavery.
-Life under slavery was variable depending upon the master.
-Most free blacks lived like poor whites.
-Slave rebellions were unsuccessful, and squashed quickly.
- Instead of rebellions, most slaves took less drastic ways to go against slavery.
Summary/Main Idea Statement
Slavery, despite its strength, was a peculiar institution with many variables throughout the south.
Nick G. Amanda C.
Slavery - The "Peculiar Institution" Chapter 11 Section 3
Key Terms
Slave Codes - THese were the codes of the southern states that forbade them to do many things i.e. hold property, leave their masters' premises without permission, or be out after dark
"Southern Lady" - the way women were "supposed" to act in the south, they were subordinate to men, they were expected to be housewives, and help their husbands.
The plain folk - typical white southerner, not a large plantation owner
Gang system - slaves were divided into groups each of them directed by a driver and compelled to work for as many hours as an overseer considered a reasonable work day
3-5 Important Ideas
1. Slaves even after they were freed were denied many basic rights and even captured and resold
2. Nature of a relatioinship between masters and slaves depended in part on the size of the plantation.
3. Slaves resisted not always violently, but simply by not working hard or sabotaging by breaking tools or minor things
4.Slaves only recieved at least enough necessities to enable them to live and work otherwise they lived in povery
5.Not all of the south was major slave owners
6.Task system - under which slaves were assigned a particular task in the morning
Summary/Main Idea Statement
The south was very traditional in their "rules" of their society which is displayed by the role of the "southern lady", and it was clear that the South was ruled by wealth aristocrats and the "plain folk" lived subordinate to them, slavery increased with the growth of cotton, resistance from slaves was sometimes violent but rarely, it was mostly minor sabotage or just not working hard. Slavery created a unique not necessarily good bond between blacks and whites.
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Chapter 11 Section 3
2) Paternal Relatioinship: This was about how the slaves were treated by their masters. Either slave owners were warm and benevelent or they were cruel and tyrannical. Smaller plantations would have their masters work directly along side them and oversee them. Finally slaves generally wanted to live on larger farms because they would have a better social life.
3) Work conditions: Work conditions were poor overall, but they werent as bad as people made them out to be. In some cases the working conditons were better then the labor forces of the north. A slaves work day was typically long, and hard, they also were often split apart from their families.
4) High mortality rates: Slaves life expectency was much shorter then thew southern whites because, they were malnutritioned. Also they had dirty/unhealthy living conditions. Finally they had larg families so children were less likely to become adults.
5) Sexual abuse: The female house servents which were african american often were vulnerable to sexual abuse by their masters. In addition to this, the female slaves were often treated harsh by the white women as well.
Slave revolts: Actual revots were rare but the idea of revolts occored often. But if a slave revolt did actually happen it would be well planed but it would dramatically effect the slaves life as laws would become more strict and some may even be killed.
2) Slavery in cities
3) The life of free blacksc
4) Slave resistance
Andre P. Peter. F.
Chapter 11 Section 3
Vessey Rebellion- A rebellion that really never happened. It was leaked and eventually put down.
Turner Rebellion- The biggest of three, included hundreds of blacks, and had 60 whtie killed.
Paternal Relationship- How the slaves were treater by their masters, either warmly, or cruelly.
Free Blacks- About 250,000 blacks who lived in the south. They lived in conditions equa with slaves, but still had freedom.
Slave Codes- The laws about slaves. Examples include how slaves cannot hold property, hold firearms, congregate, etc.
-Life under slavery was variable depending upon the master.
-Most free blacks lived like poor whites.
-Slave rebellions were unsuccessful, and squashed quickly.
- Instead of rebellions, most slaves took less drastic ways to go against slavery.
Nick G. Amanda C.
Chapter 11 Section 3
"Southern Lady" - the way women were "supposed" to act in the south, they were subordinate to men, they were expected to be housewives, and help their husbands.
The plain folk - typical white southerner, not a large plantation owner
Gang system - slaves were divided into groups each of them directed by a driver and compelled to work for as many hours as an overseer considered a reasonable work day
2. Nature of a relatioinship between masters and slaves depended in part on the size of the plantation.
3. Slaves resisted not always violently, but simply by not working hard or sabotaging by breaking tools or minor things
4.Slaves only recieved at least enough necessities to enable them to live and work otherwise they lived in povery
5.Not all of the south was major slave owners
6.Task system - under which slaves were assigned a particular task in the morning
Syed Naqvi, and Awn